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Game Preview: DET @ BAL, 4:05pm, Saturday, July 14, 2012 @Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Tigers, 45-42, 45-42 3rd, 3½ GB, 3 GB in WC

SP: Max Scherzer (27, RHP, 8-5, 4.72)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. BAL Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (8-5) 97.1 102 55 51 33 121 15 4.72
2011 (15-9) 195.0 207 101 96 56 174 29 4.43
2010 (12-11) 195.2 174 84 76 70 184 20 3.50
Last 7 GS 4-2 43.1 38 20 17 14 49 5 3.53 56
2012-07-08 KCR W 7.0 5 1 1 1 7 1 109 69
2012-06-28 @TBR W 6.0 4 2 2 2 7 0 111 61
2012-06-23 @PIT L 6.0 3 3 3 1 7 1 100 60
2012-06-17 COL W 8.0 7 0 0 0 12 0 122 80
2012-06-12 @CHC ND 6.0 5 3 3 5 8 0 116 53
2012-06-06 CLE L 4.1 7 8 5 3 2 2 92 22
2012-05-31 @BOS W 6.0 7 3 3 2 6 1 117 50
Last 5 v.BAL 2-1 20.0 25 10 9 3 21 2 4.05 52
2011-08-13 @BAL W 7.0 7 5 4 0 10 2 120 55
2010-09-11 BAL L 6.0 12 4 4 1 5 0 96 36
2010-07-07 BAL W 7.0 6 1 1 2 6 0 103 65
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   22-20   Road:   23-22   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  32-29   vsLHP:  13-13   1-Run:  14-12
 vsEast: 12-9    vsCntrl:17-14   vsWest:  5-12 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 87 Fri, Jul 13  @BAL  W   7-2       45-42  3rd  3.5 gb
 86 Sun, Jul  8   KCR  W   7-1       44-42  3rd  3.5 gb
 85 Sat, Jul  7   KCR  W   8-7       43-42  3rd  4.5 gb
 84 Fri, Jul  6   KCR  W   4-2       42-42  3rd  4.5 gb
 83 Thu, Jul  5   MIN  W   7-3       41-42  3rd  4.5 gb
 82 Wed, Jul  4   MIN  W   5-1       40-42  3rd  4.5 gb
 81 Tue, Jul  3   MIN  L   6-8       39-42  3rd  4.5 gb
 80 Mon, Jul  2   MIN  L   4-6       39-41  3rd  3.5 gb
 79 Sun, Jul  1  @TBR  W   5-3       39-40  3rd  3.0 gb
 78 Sat, Jun 30  @TBR  W   6-2       38-40  3rd  4.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:19-11
Orioles, 45-41, 45-41 2nd, 8 GB, 2½ GB in WC

SP: Wei-Yin Chen (26, LHP, 7-5, 3.93)

2012 Gamelogs / 2012 Splits / vs. DET Current Lineup
Split IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA/Pit GSc
2012 (7-5) 103.0 98 50 45 33 78 15 3.93
Last 7 GS 3-3 43.0 40 21 20 11 31 8 4.19 52
2012-07-08 @LAA L 4.0 5 5 5 3 5 3 72 34
2012-07-03 @SEA ND 7.1 2 2 2 0 9 1 97 75
2012-06-28 CLE L 6.1 6 6 6 3 3 2 98 37
2012-06-23 WSN L 5.0 6 3 2 2 4 1 90 47
2012-06-17 @ATL W 7.0 6 0 0 1 2 0 101 66
2012-06-12 PIT W 6.1 8 4 4 2 4 1 103 43
2012-06-06 @BOS W 7.0 7 1 1 0 4 0 100 63
Has never faced DET as starter.
Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch
 Home:   22-21   Road:   23-20   ExtrInn: 9-2 
 vsRHP:  32-32   vsLHP:  13-9    1-Run:  16-6 
 vsEast: 17-15   vsCntrl:10-7    vsWest:  7-12 IL:11-7 

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
 86 Fri, Jul 13   DET  L   2-7       45-41  2nd  8.0 gb
 85 Sun, Jul  8  @LAA  L   0-6       45-40  2nd  7.0 gb
 84 Sat, Jul  7  @LAA  L   0-3       45-39  2nd  6.0 gb
 83 Fri, Jul  6  @LAA  W   3-2       45-38  2nd  5.5 gb
 82 Thu, Jul  5  @LAA  L   7-9       44-38  2nd  5.5 gb
 81 Wed, Jul  4  @SEA  W   4-2       44-37  2nd  5.0 gb
 80 Tue, Jul  3  @SEA  W   5-4       43-37  2nd  5.0 gb
 79 Mon, Jul  2  @SEA  L   3-6       42-37  2nd  6.0 gb
 78 Sun, Jul  1   CLE  L   2-6       42-36  2nd  6.0 gb
 77 Sat, Jun 30   CLE  L   5-11      42-35  2nd  5.0 gb
 Last 10: 3-7    Last 20: 6-14   Last 30:13-17
Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Fri, Jul 13, 2012 DET  7 @BAL  2        W:Doug Fister (3-6), L: Jason Hammel (8-6), S: none

Sun, Sep 25, 2011 DET 10  BAL  6        W:Brad Penny (11-11), L: Brian Matusz (1-9), S: none
Sat, Sep 24, 2011 BAL  6 @DET  5        W:Pedro Strop (2-1), L: Daniel Schlereth (2-2), S: Kevin Gregg (22)
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 DET  4  BAL  3 (11)   W:Ryan Perry (1-0), L: Willie Eyre (2-2), S: none
Thu, Sep 22, 2011 BAL  6 @DET  5        W:Zach Britton (11-10), L: David Pauley (5-6), S: Kevin Gregg (21)
Sun, Aug 14, 2011 BAL  8  DET  5        W:Jo-Jo Reyes (6-9), L: Doug Fister (4-13), S: Jim Johnson (2)
Sat, Aug 13, 2011 DET  6 @BAL  5        W:Max Scherzer (12-7), L: Jeremy Guthrie (5-16), S: Jose Valverde (35)
Fri, Aug 12, 2011 DET  5 @BAL  4        W:Brad Penny (8-9), L: Troy Patton (0-1), S: Jose Valverde (34)
Thu, Apr 07, 2011 BAL  9  DET  5        W:Jim Johnson (1-0), L: Brad Thomas (0-1), S: none
Wed, Apr 06, 2011 DET  7 @BAL  3        W:Justin Verlander (1-0), L: Brad Bergesen (0-1), S: none
Season Series: 2012 - DET over 1-0; 2011 - Tied 5-5; 2010 - Tied 5-5; All-Time - DET leads 1036-939

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below

Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.

PA - Plate Appearances (AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI)
BF - Batters Faced
BA - Batting Average
OBP - On-Base Percentage
SLG - Slugging Percentage
Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days.
SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing
HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made
ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP
Total - Team totals for those categories.
Usage - See the note below the grid.
OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so)
RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game.
PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers
Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed.
G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2012 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results
vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers
Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games.
OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists
vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters
vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters
HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed
MLB Best, Middle, Worst
Tigers Batters (4.53 RS/G) vs. Orioles Pitchers (4.58 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 16.Chen*
G/S/vB
38.Ayala
G/S/vB
37.Eveland*
G/S/vB
50.Gonzalez
G/S/vB
63.Gregg
G/S/vB
43.Johnson
G/S/vB
27.Lindstrom
G/S/vB
56.O'Day
G/S/vB
40.Patton*
G/S/vB
47.Strop
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHRdLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
13.Avila* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 2/.500 ··· 2/.500 4/.250 ··· 1/no AB 2/.500 1/.000 225/164 .244/.339/.389/.728 .639/.758 .653 64/.627 2/0 5/3
52.Berry* G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· 173/129 .289/.376/.403/.779 .661/.819 .754 89/.787 12/0 1/2
26.Boesch* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 2/1.000 ··· ··· 3/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 322/226 .246/.280/.367/.647 .569/.679 .776 62/.629 3/2 8/1
24.Cabrera G/S/vP ··· 12/1.674 7/.629 ··· 3/1.334 7/.629 1/no AB 5/1.100 1/.000 3/1.667 385/275 .326/.384/.565/.949 .951/.947 .837 96/1.066 3/1 19/8
28.Fielder* G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· 5/.400 ··· 1/2.000 ··· 376/242 .301/.380/.503/.883 .835/.911 .867 95/.881 1/0 15/7
14.Jackson G/S/vP ··· 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 6/1.000 1/.000 2/.000 1/no AB 2/3.000 1/no AB 294/202 .331/.408/.541/.948 .936/.954 .927 102/.908 7/3 9/0
32.Kelly* G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.333 2/1.500 ··· ··· ··· ··· 105/95 .185/.286/.250/.536 .425/.546 .506 14/.536 1/0 1/3
9.Laird G/S/vP ··· ··· 9/.666 ··· 7/.000 2/.000 ··· 2/1.000 ··· ··· 109/54 .306/.361/.429/.790 .642/.941 .796 24/1.071 0/0 2/1
27.Peralta G/S/vP ··· 5/1.200 6/.834 ··· 13/.581 7/.453 2/1.000 1/2.000 2/1.000 4/1.250 306/215 .263/.331/.409/.740 .778/.724 .688 79/.673 1/1 6/5
25.Raburn G/S/vP ··· 1/3.000 2/1.500 ··· 5/1.400 3/.666 1/3.000 2/.500 1/.000 3/.000 194/119 .173/.228/.257/.485 .456/.503 .594 47/.545 1/1 1/3
39.Santiago# G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 4/.250 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 1/.000 196/148 .229/.303/.314/.617 .628/.614 .539 72/.633 1/0 2/4
29.Worth G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 65/31 .182/.270/.200/.470 .583/.348 .564 0/ 0/0 0/1
21.Young G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 8/1.250 ··· 5/.900 3/.666 2/.500 9/.730 1/.000 4/.000 320/219 .273/.300/.418/.718 .852/.653 .715 86/.814 0/1 10/2
IP 103.0 41.1 32.1 18.2 25.1 37.1 19.0 35.0 40.0 38.2 TOTAL .269/.333/.422/.755 .735/.764 .744 .783 33/9 84/56
ERA-K/9 3.93/6.8 2.83/5.4 4.73/5.0 1.93/8.7 3.91/7.8 1.21/5.3 2.37/7.6 2.57/9.0 3.38/8.1 1.63/7.7 4.08/7.1

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Avila (36-16-6)
 Laird (27-4-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 435/.248 177/.256 145/.256 74/.194 113/.240 138/.151 84/.243 140/.233 161/.220 157/.188 .254  Kelly
 Berry
 Boesch
 Raburn
 Jackson
 Young
14/8/23/3
22/17/5/2
0/0/75/2
23/0/20/2
0/65/0/2
26/0/0/1
OPS .730 .698 .721 .569 .741 .449 .592 .719 .647 .549 .726
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 121/.774 81/.657 57/.699 27/.594 51/.742 77/.495 33/.853 51/.718 81/.584 75/.624 .709
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 314/.713 96/.732 88/.733 47/.552 62/.741 61/.386 51/.429 89/.719 80/.709 82/.483 .739
Home 216/.718 98/.739 95/.774 19/.743 57/.841 55/.479 40/.796 75/.727 93/.573 83/.585
Last 28d days 120/.746 48/1.032 42/.769 44/.580 34/.639 32/.393 25/.686 21/1.519 39/.711 31/.505
HR/SB/CS 15/7/2 5/4/0 3/2/0 1/1/0 3/1/0 3/1/1 0/5/0 4/0/1 5/1/0 1/0/1 99/38/18
Usage ·····X·· X····X·· X·····o· ·······X o····o·· ·······o X····o·· ·······X X······o o·····o·
Orioles Batters (4.10 RS/G) vs. Tigers Pitchers (4.40 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850
PA/OPS 37.Scherzer
G/S/vB
64.Below*
G/S/vB
53.Benoit
G/S/vB
40.Coke*
G/S/vB
20.Dotel
G/S/vB
38.Downs*
G/S/vB
33.Smyly*
G/S/vB
46.Valverde
G/S/vB
60.Villarreal
G/S/vB
PA/vRHBA/OBP/SLG/OPSvLH/RHHmLast 28dSB/CSHR/E
11.Andino G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/.000 4/1.250 1/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 293/211 .232/.293/.318/.611 .639/.600 .638 52/.583 4/3 4/12
24.Betemit# G/S/vP 6/.500 ··· 3/.333 6/.900 2/.000 ··· ··· 7/.453 ··· 267/197 .261/.322/.436/.758 .499/.848 .917 69/.855 0/1 10/13
9.Chavez* G/S/vP 3/.333 1/.000 ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/1.096 ··· 111/96 .162/.193/.210/.402 .400/.403 .384 / 1/2 1/2
19.Davis* G/S/vP 8/.500 ··· 1/.000 10/1.600 ··· ··· ··· 6/.334 ··· 290/232 .267/.310/.467/.777 .854/.757 .892 65/.454 0/3 14/4
3.Flaherty* G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 102/95 .213/.242/.277/.519 .571/.515 .492 25/.737 1/0 2/1
2.Hardy G/S/vP 16/.626 ··· 2/.000 3/.333 3/.666 ··· ··· 9/.444 1/.000 378/289 .221/.259/.375/.635 .789/.587 .734 88/.301 0/0 12/4
10.Jones G/S/vP 9/1.334 ··· 7/.286 7/.629 4/.250 ··· ··· 3/1.167 ··· 365/275 .287/.329/.529/.858 .793/.880 .888 82/.602 11/5 20/7
21.Markakis* G/S/vP 10/.522 ··· 7/1.029 14/.714 3/.666 ··· ··· 5/.200 1/.000 229/169 .256/.332/.453/.785 .694/.817 .890 4/.750 1/1 8/1
28.Paulino G/S/vP ··· ··· 2/.500 3/1.667 ··· ··· ··· 5/.000 ··· 64/34 .254/.266/.302/.567 .509/.618 .808 18/.333 0/0 0/0
51.Pearce G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 76/44 .262/.324/.462/.786 1.033/.587 .879 40/.749 0/1 3/0
12.Reynolds G/S/vP 3/.000 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 2/.500 237/175 .203/.329/.376/.705 .744/.691 .677 61/.444 1/2 7/9
25.Thome* G/S/vP 15/1.159 1/2.000 6/1.133 8/1.000 4/.000 ··· ··· 8/.625 ··· 99/76 .230/.323/.425/.749 .880/.706 .410 39/.653 0/0 5/1
6.Tolleson G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 57/16 .212/.268/.365/.633 .797/.250 .930 12/.432 1/0 2/4
32.Wieters# G/S/vP 9/.666 ··· 1/.000 4/.000 2/1.500 ··· ··· 4/.833 1/.000 322/241 .251/.329/.436/.765 1.020/.678 .786 74/.718 1/0 12/8
IP 97.1 36.0 40.1 37.2 28.1 4.1 79.1 35.2 29.0 TOTAL .239/.301/.400/.701 .754/.684 .753 .563 31/21 106/76
ERA-K/9 4.72/11.2 2.75/6.2 2.23/11.6 3.11/8.4 3.81/13.4 0.00/14.7 4.42/8.5 4.04/6.3 1.55/12.4 3.98/8.5

 Catcher Def.
 (SB-CS-PB)
 Paulino (5-1-3)
 Wieters (32-16-2)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 422/.268 139/.246 165/.214 166/.313 116/.224 15/.071 331/.263 157/.221 118/.178 .261  Jones
 Markakis
 Pearce
 Davis
 Chavez
 Andino
 Betemit
 Tolleson
 Flaherty
0/86/0/2
0/0/49/2
17/0/8/1
1/0/16/1
22/0/7/1
0/1/0/0
5/0/0/0
6/0/0/0
7/0/15/0
OPS .769 .609 .629 .772 .624 .205 .776 .666 .553 .730
vs LHB (BF-OPS) 236/.862 68/.668 77/.679 82/.664 40/.693 7/.000 97/.724 84/.805 40/.833 .756
vs RHB (BF-OPS) 186/.655 71/.551 88/.583 84/.882 76/.587 8/.393 234/.798 73/.514 78/.428 .706
Road 244/.796 47/.914 74/.668 82/.849 61/.652 / 192/.746 83/.597 47/.636
Last 28d days 103/.534 30/1.026 37/.663 37/.713 41/.668 15/.205 65/.767 29/.438 41/.646
HR/SB/CS 15/8/3 3/5/1 4/1/0 1/4/2 2/6/3 0/1/0 11/5/4 2/11/0 2/2/0 86/72/21
Usage ·····X·· ········ o·····oo o····ooo X····X·· ······o· ·······X o·····Xo ······oo

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.